Your Personal or organizational information. What information is stored depends on a user category, typically one of two types:
Registered user
A registered user provides one’s email address, IP address, organizational name and type of organization to Ringgold for our statistical and communication purposes. This information cannot be used to analyze searching histories.
Once registered, cookies are used to store information about the number of available searches the user can make. Information about the user’s “state” is also kept in cookies to enable the system to maintain “session” information as the user moves about the site and makes database searches.
Subscriber
Such an account user is an individual belonging to an organization paying a subscription to Ringgold for additional searching and reporting services. In addition to the information for registered users, the individual account user has a personal name, a logon name and password, one’s organizational affiliation, an IP address, and related search history information stored. Other data stored can include phone numbers and email addresses.